Mahesh Kale is a desciple of Jitendra Abhisheki, from whom he learned a range of classical and semi-classical styles. Mahesh’s first teacher was his mother, Meenal Kale, a student of Veena Sahasrabuddhe. Presently Mahesh continues to receive guidance from Shounak Abhisheki. –more

Salar Nader is a tabla player who was born in Germany, but has Afghan roots. His first exposure to tabla came when his family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and he began his study at age 7 with Zakir Hussain. –more

Gopal Marathe is a multi-faceted artist: composer, singer, harmonium player, music teacher and a choreographer. He has composed music for many bhajans, gazals, and dance dramas. –more

Ashwin Iyer and
Rohin Iyer
Carnatic vocal

Arun
Ramamurthy
violin

Arun Ramamurthy (violin) was born in the U.S, and was introduced to western classical music under distinguished violinist Jim Mate. Influenced by his family surroundings, at age 11 Arun began a study of South Indian music under his first guru, Anandakrishnan. –more

Anantha R. Krishnan (mridangam) is the grandson and disciple of the renowned mridangam artist Palghat R. Raghu. Anantha made his concert debut accompanying the venerable violinist T. N. Krishnan. –more

Aishu
Venkataraman
principal violin

Marcy
Sudock
conductor

Rajna
Swaminathan
mridangam

Akhilesh
Gundecha
pakhawaj

Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha are arguably the leading and most active current performers of the dhrupad style of Hindusthani vocal music. Dhrupad is the profound spiritual style that historically preceded khyal, the style of North Indian classical music most commonly heard today.

Born in Ujjain in Central India, the Gundecha Brothers were initiated into music by their parents. They received a conventional university education and learned the dhrupad art under the renowned vocalist Zia Fariduddin Dagar and also Zia Mohiuddin Dagar. –more

Akhilesh Gundecha learned pakhawaj from Shrikant Mishra and Raja Chhatrapati Singh JuDeo. Has also has received scholarships from the Ustad Allauddin Khan Sangeet Academy (Bhopal) and the Government of India. –more

Abhijit
Banerjee
tabla

Abhijit Banerjee studied tabla with Tushar Kanti Bose, Manik Pal and finally with Gyan Prakash Ghosh. As a child he won many major national music competitions. Besides tabla he also studied singing and violin. Abhijit is now a regular performer at all the major music festivals all over India and overseas, both as an accompanist and as a soloist. In his academic life he is a graduate in English with postgraduate training in journalism.